The Asian Branch will be featuring photographs and quotes from the Chinatown Oral History Project, highlighting the faces and words of residents of the neighborhood surrounding the commercial district (near 8th and Webster streets), which has long been associated with Chinese and other Asian businesses and restaurants. The branch is unique because when it was founded in 1975, it was established with a Federal Library Services Construction Act grant to specifically serve the Asian community with a multilingual staff and collections. The Asian Branch was relocated to its current home on the ground floor of the plaza in 1995.

— Oprah Winfrey. A lot of awards prognosticators expected the media mogul to get nominated for her remarkable performance in the HBO film, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” But Oprah received no Emmy love. — “Girls.” So much for a farewell fanfare. Lena Dunham’s groundbreaking comedy has gone out with a whimper. — Rachel Bloom. The song-and-dance dynamo at the center of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” once again failed to procure a nomination. Someone needs to tell Emmy voters to start paying attention to The CW.

Not tonight, the girls told him. They pulled up to the school and spotted Fogo, who was welcoming students. Shae and Delaney walked straight to the principal and hugged him, together. At a table in the cafeteria, the girls ate chicken and salad with their dates and talked about the decorations inside the gym. Shae had helped set up everything until midnight Friday and then again Saturday morning. “Wait till you see it,” she told Delaney. “It’s really pretty.”. Shae had worried all week that she and her classmates wouldn’t enjoy the dance, but she’d invested so much of herself to make sure they did – covering the bleachers in black tarp, assembling light towers wrapped in linen, putting together a gazebo threaded in faux ivy around the dessert table, painting a miniature house that looked just like the one that floats away in the movie “Up.”.